32nd International Hume Conference
University of Toronto
July 19 - 23, 2005
TUESDAY, JULY 19
3:00 – 7:30 pm REGISTRATION
7:30 – 7:45 pm WELCOME
Donald Ainslie, Chair, Department of Philosophy,
University of Toronto, and Conference Co-organizer
Margaret MacMillan, Provost, Trinity College
7:45 – 9:15 pm PLENARY SESSION
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
“‘Mutilated and Deformed’: Adam Smith on Fortune and Self-Sufficiency”
9:15 – 11:00 pm RECEPTION
The Buttery, Trinity College
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
8:30 am – 5:00 pm REGISTRATION
8:30 – 9:00 am COFFEE AND BAGELS
9:00 – 10:15 am CONCURRENT SESSION
1) Stephanie Rocknak, Hartwick College
“The Vulgar Conception of Objects in ‘Of Skepticism with Regard to the Senses’”
Commentator: Abe Roth, University of Illinois-Chicago
Chair: Lisa Shapiro, Simon Fraser University
2) Kenneth Sheppard, University of Ottawa
“Politics, Moderation, and the Hanoverian Régime: The Revolution of 1688-1689 in David Hume’s Essays”
Commentator: Roger Emerson, University of Western Ontario
Chair: Marc Hanvelt, University of Toronto
10:10 – 10:30 am COFFEE BREAK
10:30 – 11:45 am CONCURRENT SESSION
1) Brandon Watson, University of Toronto
“The Universe of the Imagination: Malebranche’s Walking-Soul Argument and Treatise 1.2.6”
Commentator: Angela Coventry, University of Portland
Chair: Peter Loptson, Guelph University
2) Michael Ridge, University of Edinburgh
“Hume’s Circumstances of Justice and Paternalism: A NewProblem”
Commentator: Jackie Taylor, University of San Francisco
Chair: Michael Gill, University of Arizona
12:00 – 1:00 pm LUNCH (provided in Trinity)
1:00 – 2:15 pm CONCURRENT SESSION
1) David Norton, McGill University
Dario Perinetti, Université du Québec à Montréal
“Responses to Hume’s Treatise in the Bibliothèque raisonnée, 1739-1741"
Commentator: David Raynor, University of Ottawa
Chair: Elmar Kremer, University of Toronto
2) Eric Schliesser, Syracuse University
“Hume’s Attack on Newton’s Philosophy”
Commentator: Saul Traiger, Occidental College
Chair: Marleen Rozemond, University of Toronto
2:15 – 2:30 pm REFRESHMENT BREAK
2:30 – 3:45 pm THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY
Michael Walsh, donor of the Walsh Philosophy Collection
Presentation on rare and 1st editions of books connected
with Hume and Early Modern Philosophy
4:00 – 5:30 pm PLENARY SESSION
Introduced by Stanley Tweyman, York University
Michel Malherbe, University of Nantes
“Hume and the Birth of the Experimental Method in France”
THURSDAY, JULY 21
8:30 – 9:00 am COFFEE AND BAGELS
9:00 – 10:15 am CONCURRENT SESSION
1) Thomas Holden, University of California Santa Barbara
“Hume on Determinism and the Theological Objection to Suicide”
Commentator: Jim Dye, Northern Illinois University
Chair: Philip Clark, University of Toronto
2) Haruko Inoue, Sapporo University
“The Role of the Indirect and the Direct Passions in the Treatise”
Commentator: Rachel Cohon, SUNY Albany
Chair: Howard Sobel, University of Toronto
10:15 – 10:30 am COFFEE BREAK
10:30 – 11:45 am CONCURRENT SESSION
1) Michael B. Gill, University of Arizona
“Humean Comparison and the Analogy between Color and Virtue”
Commentator: John Corvino, Wayne State
Chair: Dorothy Coleman, Northern Illinois University
2) Steven A. Jauss, University of Pennsylvania
“Dubos and Hume on the Paradox of Tragedy”
Commentator: Amy Schmitter, University of Alberta
Chair: Martin Lin, University of Toronto
12:00 – 1:00 pm LUNCH (provided in Trinity)
1:00 – 2:30 pm HUME SOCIETY 30th ANNIVERSARY SESSION
with Fred Wilson, Terence Penelhum, and Wade Robison.
Chaired by Jane McIntyre, Cleveland State University.
2:15 pm, Announcement: Richard Virr, McGill University
6:00 pm HARBOUR CRUISE with DINNER
FRIDAY, JULY 22
8:30 am COFFEE AND BAGELS
9:00 – 10:15 am CONCURRENT SESSION
1) Georges Dicker, SUNY Brockport
“Three Questions about Treatise 1.4.2”
Commentator: Eric Steinberg, CUNY Brooklyn College
Chair: George Nathan, Brock University
2) Ryu Susato, Kansai University
“Refinement of Democracy: The significance of Hume’s Perfect Commonwealth”
Commentator: Miriam McCormick, University of Richmond
Chair: James Kelleher, University of British Columbia
10:15 – 10:30 am COFFEE BREAK
10:30 – 11:45 CONCURRENT SESSION
1) Kevin Meeker, University of South Alabama
Commentator: George Nathan, Brock University
Chair: Lorne Falkenstein, University of Western Ontario
2) Naohito Mori, Kyoto University
“The Causes and Effects of the Expansion of Public Credit in Hume’s Political Discourses”
Commentator: Jock Gunn, Queen’s University
Chair: Corliss Swain, St. Olaf College
12:00 – 1:00 pm LUNCH (provided in Trinity)
1:00 – 2:15 pm CONCURRENT SESSION
1) Claire Fourny-Etchegaray, Universite Paris I – Pantheon Sorbonne
“L'originalité du raisonnement humien sur les miracles. Hume versus Port-Royal?” (English version)
Commentator: Robert Zaretsky, University of Houston
Chair: Idil Boran, University of Quebec at Montreal
2) Catherine Kemp, Penn State
Commentator: Katie Abramson, Indiana University-Bloomington
Chair: David Johnson, York University
2:15 – 2:30 pm REFRESHMENT BREAK
2:30 – 4:15 pm SYMPOSIUM:
NORMATIVITY IN HUME
Chaired by Don Garrett, New York University
Tom Beauchamp, Georgetown University
“The Sources of Normativity in Hume’s Ethics”
Elizabeth Radcliffe, Santa Clara University
“Normative Judgment and Motivation in Hume”
4:15 – 4:30 pm REFRESHMENT BREAK
4:30 – 6:00 pm PLENARY SESSION
Introduced by Donald Ainslie, University of Toronto
Dan Garber, Princeton University
“Force, Activity and Necessary Connection: The Seventeenth-Century Background to Hume’s Problem”
SATURDAY, JULY 23
8:30 – 9:00 am COFFEE AND BAGELS
9:00 – 10:15 am CONCURRENT SESSION
1) John P. Wright, Central Michigan University
“Hume on the Origin of Modern Honour: A Study in Hume’s Intellectual Development”
Commentator: Martin Bell, Manchester Metropolitan University
Chair: Rob Shaver, University of Manitoba
2) Neil McArthur, University of Western Ontario
“Hume’s Dispositional Conservatism”
Commentator: Marc Hanvelt, University of Toronto
Chair: Yumiko Inukai, University of Pennsylvania
10:15 – 10:30 am COFFEE BREAK
10:30 – 11:45 am CONCURRENT SESSION
1) Graciela De Pierris, Stanford University
“Hume and Descartes on Scepticism with Regard to Demonstrative Reason”
Commentator: Donald Baxter, University of Connecticut
Chair: Miriam McCormick, University of Richmond
2) Ian Stoner, University of Minnesota
“Trust, Friendship and Hume’s Reply to the Sensible Knave”
Commentator: Jeanette Bicknell, University of Ottawa
Chair: Tom Hurka, University of Toronto
12:00 – 1:00 pm LUNCH (provided in Trinity) + BUSINESS MEETING
1:00 – 2:15 pm CONCURRENT SESSION
1) Tony Pitson, University of Stirling
Commentator: Miguel A. Badía-Cabrera, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Chair: Claudia Schmidt, Marquette University
2) Mikko Tolonen, University of Helsinki
“Politeness, Paris and the Treatise”
Commentator: Elisa Hurley, Georgetown University
Chair: Sonia Sedivy, University of Toronto
2:15 – 2:30 pm REFRESHMENT BREAK
2:30 – 3:45 pm CONCURRENT SESSION
1) Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia
“Groups versus Individuals in Hume’s Political Economy”
Commentator: Craig Walton, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Chair: Kathleen Wallace, Hofstra University
2) Peter Millican, Leeds University
“Hume’s Determinism”
Commentator: James Harris, St. Andrew’s University
Chair: Kenneth Sheppard, University of Ottawa
3:45 – 4:00 PM REFRESHMENT BREAK
4:00 – 5:30 pm PLENARY SESSION
Introduced by David Owen, University of Arizona
Don Garrett, New York University
“Hume’s Circle Argument Squared”
Evening BANQUET